Central versus peripheral effects of muscarinic antagonists: the limitations of quaternary ammonium derivatives.
Central versus peripheral effects of muscarinic antagonists: the limitations of quaternary ammonium derivatives.
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毒蕈碱拮抗剂的中枢与外周作用:季铵衍生物的局限性。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02245315
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Sarter,M
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作者:
Moore,H;Dudchenko,P;Comer,KS;Bruno,JP;Sarter,M
For more than 40 years, muscarinic receptor blockers have served as major tools for investigating the functions of central cholinergic systems. With the advent of the" cholinergic hypothesis" of geriatric mental dysfunctions, research dealing with muscarinic antagonists has exponentially increased, and now is increasingly carried out using human subjects. Because quaternary ammonium derivatives have been suggested not to cross the blood-brain-barrier (Schanker 1962; Innes and Nickerson 1975), the behavioral effects of quaternary ammonium derivatives of scopolamine and atropine have been attributed solely to peripherally mediated events (eg, Levy et al. 1984). However, previous studies have indicated significant limitations of this rationale. For example, Carlton wrote in 1962," At the time the present experiments were conducted, we assumed that MeA (methyl atropine) would be a perfect control for the peripheral effects of atropine.... Therefore, any difference between the behavioral effects of atropine, on the one hand, and MeA, on the other, could be ascribed to the action of atropine on the central nervous system"(Carlton 1962, p 586). While equimolar doses of methyl atropine failed to completely reproduce the effects of atropine on performance in an avoidance task, Carlton was apparently puzzled by the finding that" MeA, like atropine, augmented the behavioral effects of amphetamine and that it produced an atropine-like slowing of the EEG"(Carlton and Didamo 1961, p 586). Methylated forms have rarely been tested in studies using humans or nonhuman primates (an exception is the study by Broks et al.(1988), who tested the effects of 0.6 mg methylscopolamine in intact volunteers; the report indicates that no effects were found and thus data were not presented). A survey of over 70 studies on the behavioral effects of antimuscarinics in subprimate animals indicated that 64% of these studies did not control for potential peripheral components of the effects of tertiary drugs, ie, they did not test quaternary analogues. In the majority of the remaining studies,